Cadence Design Systems Software Engineering interview questions

The interview took 1 day. First a written round of programming was taken off 3 questions:- 1. Program to swap 2 numbers without 3rd Variable 2. Program to reverse the items of a Linked List. 3. Program for Inorder Traversal Then 3 interview Rounds with 3 different managers were held:- 1. First manager asked about family background. Then, he asked the algorithm for square root of a number. Another question was if a file changes on client side, what can be the ways to trigger something on server side. 2. Second Manager asked about sorting. Asked to write a function to detect loop in a Linked list. Malloc return type. Calloc v/s malloc . 3. Third Manager asked about searching algorithms and their complexity.

The interview was with the manager that I currently work for. They gave me some information about the work that I will be doing and asked me some questions on my background.